Don’t Lose Your Own Battle

My Positive Outlooks's avatarMy Positive Outlooks

The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it’s permanent then it’s permanent. If you think you’ve reached your limits then you have. If you think you’ll never get well then you won’t. You have to change your thinking. You need to see everything that’s holding you back, every obstacle, every limitation only as temporary. — Unknown

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The Invisible Dream

beccabesser's avatarLife With Words

You might be wondering what The Invisible Dream is… It has to do with that skill you have or use that no one can, or likes, to see. Why? Mostly because it doesn’t have any real value in everyday life or fit into life neatly. The Invisible Dream is your desire to cultivate, grow, and build that skill to actually mean and do something for your life. Other people won’t acknowledge it until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands – something that makes your gift “real” to them.

For musicians, it may be their first record deal or gig.

For artists, it might be that first gallery showing or the first big commissioned piece.

For writers, it might be their first publication or book deal.

Until that moment when you actually have something tangible to show for all your effort, people don’t see what…

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What’s the deal with that hashtag thing?

Wendy E. N. Thomas's avatarLive to Write - Write to Live

Last weekend, at the blogging panel (which, by the way, was a blast) during the question and answer period, a woman asked about hashtags – “what are they?”

facebook-hashtagIf she asked that, then I figured someone else in our audience might have the same question. Here is the scoop about hashtags.

A hashtag is just that little crossed symbol on your keypad that used to be called the number sign (#).

It’s used on social media (mostly Twitter but it’s on other sites, like Facebook, as well) as a way to do searches. Hashtagged words act as keywords in a search. Think about it, how many words do you know in the English language that start with #? I’m guessing that you can’t come up with many. Because of this, hashtags are used on the internet as a way to easily do searches.

Finding information with Hashtags

Let’s say I’m…

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